Toy top.



L. WEINER.

TOY TOP.

APPLICATION FILED 'MRR. 6.1911,

Patented Oct. 2,1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 191?.

Application filed March 6, 1917. Serial No. 152,538.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO WEINER, a subject of Charles, Emperor of Austria and Hungary, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Tops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has a general relation to toy spinning tops and especially relates to a top which is spun or rapidly rotated by the unwinding of a cord wrapped about the stem of the top, the stem being temporarily held in a spinning member or holder. The object of the invention is to provide an improved spinning member or holder having bearings arranged to hold the top during the time that motion is imparted to it, one of the bearings when not in use constituting a guiding means for the cord as it is unwound from the stem of the top during the operation of spinning the same.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement. of parts constituting the invention to be here inafter specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof wherein is shown the preferred embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications can be resorted to which come within the scope of the matter hereinafter claimed.

In the drawings in which similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the different figures,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a toy spinning top in operative connection with a holder or spinning member therefor.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the spinning member, and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinalcentral sectional view' of the working end of the spinning member.

The top employed is one of conventional type having a globelike body portion 1, a depending wearing tip 2 and an upwardlyextending shank or stem 3 the latter being in axial alinement with the member 2. In practice the stem 3 is longer than is ordinarily employed in tops of this general type for a purpose to be later described. The spinning member comprises a hollow tubelike body portion 4 preferably rectilinear incross section and preferably tapering or narrowed at the handle end 5 to afiord an inwardly from the open end of the spinning member are slots, 10, 11, 12 and 13 disposed respectively in the sides 6-9 inclusive. The sides around each of the slots is provided with a reinforcing beading 14 preferably rounded or round in cross section to constitute bearings for the stem 3 of the top.

The complete operation of the device will be at once apparent from this detailed description thereof, it being understood that a cord 15 is Wound upon the stem before the latter is inserted in two of the alined or opposing slots of the spinning member. As shown in the drawings the stem is inserted in the slots 10 and 12 thus holdin the top in position, the spool or winding 0 the cord 15 serving to hold the top from vertical movement. then carried outwardly through either of the slots 11 or 13 and by pulling on the cord 2. rapid rotary motion is imparted to the top which not only starts it spinning but causes it to free itself from engagement with the spinning member. By providing the spinning member with two pairs of slots with the members of the two pairs oppositely disposed to one another the stem of the top may be inserted in any desired alined pain of slots, and one of the other unoccupied slots constitutes a guiding member for the cord during the unwinding operation requisite for spinning the device.

As previously stated the stem 3 of the The free end of the cord 15 is top is made longer than is ordinarily cus- -ing one open end, the wall of the member further provided with a plurality. of slots extending from the open end, said slotsarranged in pairs with the members of each pair disposed in opposing relation and adapted to coiiperate to form a temporary holding bearing for the stem of a top, and

the unoccupied slots constituting guiding means for a cord employed for spinning the top.

2. A combination With a toy spinning top having a stem, of a spinning device therefor comprising a hollow member having one open end, the Wall of the member further provided with a plurality of slots ex tending from the open end, each of said 10 slots provided with outwardly-projectin beading-s, said slots arranged in pairs witfi naaapea the members of each pair disposed in opposing relation and adapted to cooperate to form a temporary holding bearing .for the stem of a top, and the unoccupied slots constituting iding means for a cord employed for spinning the top.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LEO WEINER. 

